About David Demarest, II

David settled in Bergen City in 1677, and had 11 children. He was killed by a falling tree.

book

A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy

by: David C. Major, John S. Major

Associated University Presse, 2007 - History - 261 pages

A Huguenot on the Hackensack explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley